Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Giorgio Morandi, Lifelong Learning
26 Jan 2018
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Relates to space and place and your experience: midterm: your awareness, how attuned you are to the course. Three learning objectives (1) an understanding of space and place within the context of tourism (2) a personal sense of the meaning of tourism (3) an understanding of self as a tourist (are you a good tourist?) It has nothing to do with distance or the exotic. My travel book is about my trip, not yours or anyone else"s. Even if someone had come with me and written a book about the trip it would have been a different book: every trip has a historical dimension. Despair is the armchair; it is staying at home, it is indifference and glazed incurious eyes. Despair is the video game of travel without actually going anywhere. I think travellers are essentially optimists, or else they would never go anywhere.
